TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

Mr F. W. .Marchant, C.E., is a -passeji ger for Engla-nd by the Rotorua.. Xapier : To sail, at 8 p.m., Ripple for Gisborne.

Mrs Beero (Gisborne) and her daugh ter. Mrs Trask (Nelson), are expected tr reach Wellington from London on Satin* day by the Turakina.

Mrs Herries. wife of Mr W. H. Herries, M.P. for Tauraryju, is at pre sent m very ill-health, and i.s in a pri vate hospital m Auckland.

The Rev. D. McKenzie is about t<leave Nuhaka, having been appointee to the outfields of Opoti-i. His successor is the Rev. Mr Brier] v.

Captain F. Holm's reeiiilly-purchasec. steamer John left Lyttelton on Frida\ on her first coastal trip, to load at Have lock fov Gisborne.

Mr Kenneth Sisam. the 1910 Rhode? scholar, and an old Whakatane school boy, has been appointed assistant lecturer m English language at the Merton College, Oxford.

Owing to the late arrival of the Gis borne boat (states Monday's Hastings Tribune) there was some exciting cab-sprinting done to catch the ex press train. One or two cabbies "madt good" by the narrowest of margins.

The new Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (Dr. Sproil) has announced that no wine.s or intoxicating liquors of any kind 'will be. allowed to any of the functions held m Mi* Speaker-, apartments while he holds tliat office.

Great difficulty is being experienced m getting men for co-operative works m the Wairoa district. The tendency to drift to the towns is still very pronounced. More than one of the class has been ordered to clear out and get to work of late (states a correspondent).

Jlr Fellows, assistant lighthouse-keeper at Manukau (North Head), has been promoted to be principal, keeper at East Cape, m place of Mr Ansiu, who transfers to Kaipara*. Mr Flood goes to East Cape light as assistant keeper, m place of Mr Lewis, who has resigned.

A passenger by the Maitai which left Wellington on Saturday for .Sydney was John MacPherspn, former cashier, who is alleged to have absconded from Sydney to San Francisco with funds of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. MacPherson is returning to Sydney voluntarily to face the charges.

A mild sensation was caused at Rangiora one day last week through the nonappearance, of a prospective bridegroom to take Ills place at the wedding ceremony. All preparations for the ceremony had been made, and much . sympathy was expressed for the prospective bride m the painful situation m which she was placed.

Harvest thanksgiving services are to be held m St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Sunday next. Donations of flowers, fruit and vegetables will \>s thankfully received at the church on Saturday afternoon, these to be afterward-, distributed among th.c charitable institutions of, the town. The quarterly collection for the new church building fund will be taken morning and evening. There will be special music by' the choir.

With reference to the appointment of Messrs J. R. Kirk and F. C. Fiddy 'as captains of the Territorial force, it is interesting to record that Captain Fiddy has seen service as a non commissioned officer m the Imperial forces, and later as a lieutenant of the Imperial Light Horse m the South African war. Capt. Kirk was president foi- some years of the Naseby Rifle Club, and besides qualifying himself m musketry, has for some time taken ati interest m military matters.

Mr Joseph Carroll,' son of the late Thomas Carroll, and a nephew of Sir James Carroll, who has been studying at Lincoln College, Christchurch, for several years, and who has been on the Maraekakaho station for about a year, has taken over the management of the Huramua estate. Wairoa people (states the Telegraph's. Wairoa correspondent) welcome m our- midst a representative of the Carroll family, a family which has been so closely associated with Wairoa. since early days. . . "

Some astonishment was shown cm the faces of those present at a meeting of creditors (says the Christchurch Evening News) when the debtor stated that the expenses of his .household, including himself, his wife, and family, had been cut down to ten shillings per week, that boiled rice was one of their principal dishes, and that they had only had a quarter of a ton of coal since last September. He added that he did not possess enough money to buy a loaf of bread. ' The plucky action of a boy of 11 -years, named Norman Thomas, averted a drowning fatality at Akaroa last week. A child of five years, son of Mr H. W. WilkSns, was playing on the wharf, and fellover the side into some 16ft of water. The boy Thomas noticed the accident, ran down to the place, and jumped m after the child. He managed to bring his burden to the side of the wharf, where, with the aid of a lifebelt thrown to Thomas by a companion namled Halliday, he was able to pull thechild up some steps to the wharf.

A narrow escape from a serious accident/occurred at Hastings on Tuesday. The harness of a horse, driven m a trap by Mr Arthur Wade, came loose, and the animal, becoming frightened, bolted along one of the main streets. Mr Wade clung to the reins, but the horso turned a corner, and dashed along Southampton street towards the railway crossing. The occupant, seeing an approaching train and being unable to stop the horse, then dropped the reins, and, at the last moment, thing himself out of the vehicle, The horse went on, and. dashing into the train, -was so severely injured that be had to be destroyed.